Mijiic is a small language family of
Arunachal Pradesh in northeastern India, consisting of the erstwhile possible
language isolate
Language isolates are languages that cannot be classified into larger language families. Korean and Basque are two of the most common examples. Other language isolates include Ainu in Asia, Sandawe in Africa, and Haida in North America. The num ...
(dialect cluster)
Miji and the recently discovered
Bangru language. The two languages are clearly related, though "the very different consonant inventories makes seeking regular correspondences difficult."
[ The Bangru and Miji are geographically separated and are not clearly aware of their linguistic relationship, though there is some evidence for contact between East Miji and Bangru in the past. They are commonly included in the Sino-Tibetan language family, but the evidence is weak.][Roger Blench (2023]
What is the evidence that the isolate languages of Arunachal Pradesh are genuinely Trans-Himalayan?
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Numerals
The basic numerals correspond.[
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References
Further reading
*Blench, Roger. 2015
''The Mijiic languages: distribution, dialects, wordlist and classification''
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